Government treads carefully to get hate off social media

Representatives Adam Schiff and Mark Takano asked Twitter’s Elon Musk to investigate the increase in hate speech on his social media platform. Antisemitic speech has increased by 106 percent since Musk took over Twitter. (Jurist, March 28, 2023, by Madeline Bruce)

In the meantime, Fire reported on journalist Michael Shellenberger’s testimony before Congress, urging it to step up for the First Amendment in requiring transparency on government attempts to affect social media decisions on content. (Foundation for Individual Rights And Expression, March 28, 2023, by Aaron Terr)

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